Clean energy company Ameresco, of Framingham, has completed its first European wind project, in Greece.
The €9.8 million ($11.92 million) renewable energy project in Xerakia Dilinata of the Municipality of Kefalonia, Greece will supply clean energy to the island, according to a release from Ameresco.
The project is Ameresco’s first international wind project completed on continental Europe and expands the company’s presence. It was secured as part of a design, build, operate and maintain contract contract awarded to Ameresco in 2019 by PPC Renewables SA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Public Power Corporation SA, Greece’s largest power generation company.
According to Ameresco, the Kefalonia Wind Project will reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 22,000 tons each year — savings equivalent to 4,753 passenger cars not driven, 2,475,526 gallons of gasoline not burned, or 28,731 acres of pine forest conserved.Â
